Academic Skills and Personal Development Plan

Academic skills
and
personal
development
plan

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development:...................................................................3
Short-term goals:.........................................................................................................................3
Medium-term goals:.....................................................................................................................4
Long-term goals:..........................................................................................................................4
Personal development plan:.........................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Affect of author, purpose, reliability as well as relevance:.........................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Evaluation of sources:..................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCE..................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are comprised of core skills, which involves academic writing, skills
related to presentation and referencing, that underpins complex skills, for example critical
thinking as well as reflective practice (Assiter, ed., 2017). In a broad manner it can be stated that
any skill that boosts a ability of a person for studying, retaining and recalling information that
assists in passing of exams that can be reflected as study skill, as well as it involves time
management as well as motivational techniques (Balfaqeeh and Hassan, 2017). This report is
based on analysis of academic skills as well as personal development plan. It covers description
of personal and professional development and discusses on short-term, medium-term and long-
term goals. Further, personal development plan is evaluated for achieving my goals.
TASK 1
I am the student at a University and for the purpose of reviewing my learnings and
enhancing its effectiveness I planned to develop a personal development plan which is a helpful
approach for gaining success. Thus, I reviewed my short medium, and long-term goals of life in
personal as well as professional context.
Concept of personal and professional development:
Personal as well as Professional development is the procedure by which an organization
or an individual engage in learning for the purpose of meeting the challenges as well as desire
goal. The objective of personal as well as professional development is related to helping a person
to manage his or her own learning or growth throughout the person’s career (Biemiller and
Meichenbaum, 2017). It is essential that an individual continues to learn or develop for keeping
his or her skills or knowledge up-to date. Further, it ensures continuation of work in a safe, legal
and effective manner.
Short-term goals:
A short-term goal refers to objective that can be done in near future a short-term
objective is something which a person wants to accomplish soon. A short-term goal indicates
a goal that can be achieved in 12 months (Goodall Jr, 2018). My short-term goal is to increase
my academic results, improvise my communication skills and enhance my expertise in
presentation in front of crowd.